Artist StatementIn my memory of Eronga, there is distant quiet. Mist curtains the open vista. Methane intoxicates the otherwise clean air of these verdant volcanic mountains. The intimate canal slices the greenscape silver, a hole, a path, before high light bleaches us all. The day ends with purple water to bridge land and sky. Rain comes at any moment.

This walnut ink drawing series is based on my experiences in Erongaricuaro, a small village in Michoacán, Mexico. Using a double sided bamboo pen, with nib on one end and sponge on the other, I dilute the luminous, water soluble walnut ink, to mark the white pages of my elongated pad of rough Arches watercolor paper. The looking process serves the representation of natural light and depth of space, through the minimal articulation of the hand.

The benefit of working plein air is in the actual, physical, sensorial immersion of the body within the subject matter. In the studio I then relive and reinvent the memory within the environmental imagination of Los Angeles. The Mt. Whitney piece, from a different plein air series in the Sierra Nevada range, was produced in the studio so based on the initial plein air drawings.

Artist Bio / CV

EDUCATION

University of California Los Angeles

MFA Painting 2008 Los Angeles CA

Brown University

BA Visual Art 2005 Providence RI

EXPERIENCE

Part-Time Faculty California State University Long Beach, Intro Painting 2008